![]() The Vancouver-based forestry company says strong earnings from its European operations and more modest results from its operations in the U.S. reported a loss in its first-quarter compared with a profit a year ago as its lumber operations in Western Canada faced lower prices.Ĭanfor chief executive Don Kayne says it was another challenging quarter for the company’s lumber business. Never felt younger! Never felt stronger! Haven't got a symptom any longer.VANCOUVER - Canfor Corp. Claus: And your aches? Santa Claus: Pooh! My back feels fine. Load up the sleigh! Harness the team! Fetch my coat! Jingle Bells: But what about your gout? Jangle Bells: And the crick in your spine? Mrs. Santa Claus: Well, why's everybody standing around? There's work to be done. Snow Miser: Cooperate?! Surrender the North Pole, you call "cooperate?" Snow Miser: What?! Heat Miser: I told you he wouldn't cooperate. Snow Miser: Oh, really? Well, what does the flaming fool want this time? The North Pole? Mrs. Claus: Of course, there has to be a small concession on your part. Claus: Your brother agreed to let it snow in the south. Snow Miser: Well, if I can't have a little fun, I might as well leave. Heat Miser: You think you're hot stuff just 'cause Mother likes you best! Mrs. Mother warned you about that low boiling point of yours. Heat Miser: Madam, kindly state your business with that drippy snowman and get him out of here! Snow Miser: Mind your blood pressure, hotcakes. How'd you make out with the hothead? Heat Miser: I heard that, you snowball! Snow Miser: Oh, my goodness. We'll give Santa an official national holiday this year! Iggy Thistlewhite: You will? Mayor: I'll spring your, uh, reindeer from the hoosegow. You conjure up a good old-fashioned white Christmas for us right here in Southtown, and I'll buy every word you say. Mayor: Well, not in the last hundred years. How can we convince you? Mayor: Oh, come on, son, what kind of fool do you think I am? You ain't got the chance of a snowball in Southtown of convincing me one-tenth of your story's on the level! Jangle Bells: A snowball in Southtown? What kind of chance is that? Iggy Thistlewhite: Not very good. Jingle Bells: But we are elves! We're serious. Jangle Bells: 'Cause Santa isn't coming this year. Jingle Bells: You see, Your Honor, we're on a special mission. ![]() Right? Jingle Bells and Jangle Bells: Right. Scout up some goodwill and show him some proof that somebody cares. Claus: So all you have to do is go down there and find some example of Christmas spirit left over from last year. Claus: He thinks there's no Christmas spirit, no goodwill. Claus: As I see it, Santa doesn't want to go because nobody cares, right? Jingle Bells and Jangle Bells: Right. Doctor: Nobody cares a hooting holler for you or Christmas! Oh, by the way, Merry Christmas to you. Claus: Now, Santa, don't you pay him any mind. Doctor: Who cares? Nobody cares about Christmas anymore! Santa Claus: They don't? Doctor: Of course not! Wouldn't surprise me none if nobody even believes in you anymore. If Santa stayed home, why, there'd be no Christmas. What about all that Christmas spirit and goodwill? Doctor: If you had any sense, you'd give it up as a bad job and stay home in bed this year. Claus: Now, now, Doctor, it's not just presents and you know it. And for what? Just to deliver presents to a bunch of folks who don't give a hoot in the first place! Mrs. Probably never got over the case of near-pneumonia you picked up last year, gallivanting around the world in your open sleigh. It was originally broadcast on Decemon ABC.ĭialogue Doctor: No wonder you got the shivers and shakes. ![]() The story is based on Phyllis McGinley's 1956 book of the same name, illustrated by Kurt Werth. Claus and his Elves set out to change his mind. The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in which a weary and discouraged Santa Claus considers skipping his Christmas Eve run one year, and Mrs.
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